Level: 3
Blinds: 100/300
Ante: 300
2022 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo
€5,300 Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2022 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1a
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€5,204,050
Entries
1,073
Level
33
Blinds
125,000 / 250,000
Ante
250,000
Entries
418
Players Left
121
Players Left 1 / 1,073
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Level 3
: 100/300, 300 ante
On a late reg table filled with EPT regulars, a preflop raising war got the chips of Rodrigo Seiji into the middle and Julien Martini was more than happy to snap call as he had the best of it.
Rodrigo Seiji: 
Julien Martini: 
The board ran out 
to leave Seiji drawing dead on the turn and that spelled the end for the Brazilian, who can re-enter one more time on either Day 1a, 1b or prior to the start of Day 2.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
62,000
32,000
|
32,000 |
|
42,000
42,000
|
42,000 |
|
32,000
32,000
|
32,000 |
|
31,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
29,000
29,000
|
29,000 |
|
21,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
|
Busted |
Level 3
: 100/300, 300 ante
With around 10,000 in the pot and 
on the board, Harry Lodge bet 4,000 from the big blind and Shakhabiddin Muradov called from the button. The turn was 
. Lodge continued for 7,500 and Muradov got away from it to give up the pot.
On the next hand, Muradov raised to 700 from the cutoff and George Damian called frmo the button. Lodge raised to 3,200 from the small blind and the big blind got out of the way before both remaining players called. The flop was 
and Lodge continued for 4,000. Both players wasted no time folding their hands and Lodge picked up another pot to move above 60,000 in early Day 1a action.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
63,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
23,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
9,900 |
Level 3
: 100/300, 300 ante
Following a flop of 
, Javier Fernandez Alonso checked from the small blind and then called a bet worth 900 by Melika Razavi in the under-the-gun position. The 
turn was checked by the Spaniard once more and Razavi fired another bet of 2,600 for Fernandez Alonso to call.
The 
river was checked and Fernandez Alonso tabled the 
, to which Razavi mucked.
"Oh wow, I am so lucky my flush didn't hit," Razavi said, indicating she would have stacked her opponent.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
45,000 | |
|
42,000 |
Level 3
: 100/300, 300 ante
The cards were already on their backs as Yannick Schumacher was the player at risk with the . He was up against Josef Huber with the 
, and the latter had turned two pair on 
. The river was a blank and Huber just shrugged while Schumacher left the table without saying a single word or showing any emotion.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
35,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
Busted |
Level 3
: 100/300, 300 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
47,000
47,000
|
47,000 |
|
||
|
45,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
|
32,000
32,000
|
32,000 |
|
31,000
31,000
|
31,000 |
|
||
|
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
30,000 | |
|
||
|
28,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
|
27,000
27,000
|
27,000 |
|
||
|
23,000 | |
|
||
|
22,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
Level 3
: 100/300, 300 ante
With just 3,500 in the middle to the 
flop, the chips of Alexandre Saxod and Juan Antonio Garcia Reverte went into the middle of the table with the former at risk for 16,400.
Alexandre Saxod: 
Juan Antonio Garcia Reverte: 
"I can make a straight flush but you cannot," Garcia Reverte joked. He had no reason to laugh anymore on the turn as Saxod improved to the nut flush and that left the Spaniard with one out.
The river was the and Saxod doubled.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
37,000
37,000
|
37,000 |
|
|
29,000
29,000
|
29,000 |
Level 3
: 100/300, 300 ante
Alexey Losev raised from middle position and Luca Giovannone called from cutoff before Didier Pitcho shoved his last 5,400 from the button. Both players called and the flop was 
.
Losev bet 2,600 on the flop and Giovannone raised to 8,000. Losev got away from it after a few moments in the tank and the cards were turned up.
Didier Pitcho: 
Luca Giovannone:
Both players had ace-jack but Pitcho had flush opportunities that were dashed on the 
turn. The 
on the river was inconsequential and both players split up Losev's chips while Giovannone took the small side pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
38,800
38,800
|
38,800 |
|
26,600 | |
|
|
8,600 |
Level 3
: 100/300, 300 ante
Tamon Nakamura was down to a few chips only which he got in before the flop with the . He was looked up by fellow countryman Tsugunari Toma in the small blind with the .
It was Toma who got there on the 
flop but the turn and river kept Nakamura in contention. "Now I have a very big stack," he joked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
48,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
|
5,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
Level 3
: 100/300, 300 ante
With 18,100 in the middle and the turn showing 
, Thi Xoa Nguyen checked in the small blind and so did Julien Sitbon in middle position and Tsugunari Toma on the button.
Nguyen then bet the 
river for 12,000 and Sitbon went into a long tank. The clock was called on him and he then called within the 30 seconds only for Toma to glance at Nguyen's stack and raise to 25,000.
Nguyen folded after short consideration and Sitbon was stunned. "Oh my god, I knew you didn't have it," he said in French and the next tank by Sitbon followed. He was called the clock upon a second time and the Frenchman then called, again.
Toma rolled over the for a straight and Sitbon mucked his cards in disgust. "You have aces, I know," Toma said in table chat.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
97,000
49,000
|
49,000 |
|
21,000
900
|
900 |
|
13,000
13,000
|
13,000 |
|
7,000
43,000
|
43,000 |
